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5 Things to Look Forward to at Adobe Summit 2017

Here are 5 great events to add to your Adobe Summit calendar: Network with the top digital marketers from all over the world at the Tuesday evening Welcome Reception at 6:30pm. Explore the Community Pavili...

September 1, 2015

Data loading into Amazon Redshift simplified: The Podcast, part 1

You can hear the whole podcast at this link. There are two sides to everything, and in the case of software feature development, always at least two stories to be told: that of the business person who requires the feature, and the developer who creates and maintains it. Treasure Data has add...

Pandas: A Crash Course

Starting on the premise that data can be “..too small to be big data, but too big to be stupid about it,” we are taken through a Pandas crash course. The talk touched on several areas, including:......

New UDFs in Presto: currency conversion and geocoding tools

Today, we introduced three new UDFs (user-defined functions) to to TD‘s Presto offering. They are......

The 4 Important Things about Analyzing Data Part 1: The Importance of Providing Many ‘Obvious’ Results

In the past few years, mass accumulation of data has increased. Meanwhile, the distributed parallel processing of the data has matured. Although the original focus was on the analysis back end (platforms) to support the accumulation of data and the efficiency of the batches, I believe that the imp...

December 12, 2012

Attack of the Hadoop Hybrids

As if IBM and EMC crashing the Hadoop party wasn't strange enough, now it seems that every data warehousing, database and appliance vendor has a Hadoop co-existence story and, in many cases, a hybrid architecture that they claim provides a best of both worlds solution to data warehousing / big data ...

November 20, 2012

Data Warehousing or Big Data -What’s in a Name?

There is a clever article in this week's Information Week entitled Big Data Debate: End Near For Data Warehousing? The article asks a series of questions that can be reduced to “Will Hadoop supplant the enterprise data warehouse and relegate relational databases to data-mart roles?” This is cert...

October 30, 2012

CIOs say BI, Mobility and Cloud are Top Priorities

Every year Gartner produces one of the definitive surveys of IT priorities based on input from CIOs around the world. It is usually one of the most influential and most quoted surveys and this year's survey will be no exception. According to the latest published survey (September 2012), CIOs rated ...

October 16, 2012

Sorry Guys It’s Not Just About Big Data

McKinsey christened it, Forbes is writing about it, the Harvard Business Review just devoted 22 pages to it and the tech press is alive with it – “it” is big data of course. Treasure Data grew up with big data, distributed storage and processing architectures and handling thousands of concurre...

August 28, 2012

Five Criteria of a Next Generation Data Warehouse

A few months ago, Jeff Kelly published a comprehensive article that captured the current state of Big Data and Hadoop nicely and laid out the blueprint of next-generation cloud computing. For cloud computing nerds like us, the article was a joy to read, but especially the section called “Next G...